As the season of peace and good will approaches, an antidote could be to consider preparing an abstract for the workshop ‘Hostility by Design’ to be held in Maastricht on 12-13 June 2025. Abstracts are due on 8 January 2025. Full details can be found here. The workshop is supported by the Maastricht University Science, Technology and Society (MUSTS) research programme and by the Department of Society Studies, both in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS).
In recent years, perhaps stimulated by the growing awareness of the power of digital technologies, there have been calls for engineers and designers to advance values ‘by design’, such as democracy, participation, privacy and transparency. This builds on earlier inclusive design and access-for-all initiatives. But not all encounters with technologies are fulfilling, and some are designed to exclude or harm people, animals and nature. This workshop focuses on those technologies that could be described as hostile or exclusionary by design.
Sally Wyatt
Professor of Digital Cultures
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), Maastricht University
PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Recent publications
Lysen, F., & Wyatt, S. (2024). Refusing participation: hesitations about designing responsible patient engagement with artificial intelligence in healthcare. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 11(1).
Richterich, A., & Wyatt, S. (2024). Feminist automation: Can bots have feminist politics? New Media & Society, 26(9), 4973-4991.
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